Medicine: Artificial Psychoses

Amid a clutter of flasks and tubes, beakers and retorts in the Sandoz
Laboratories in Basel, Researcher Dr. Albert Hoffman was doing a
routine experiment when he had a common laboratory accident: somehow,
he absorbed some of the fluid he was working with. He became muddled
and confused. Four days later, satisfied that the offending substance
was lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25), he weighed out a minute dose
and took it deliberately. It struck him "like a bolt of
lightning." Hoffman had to go home, but he had lost his perception
of time and...